Contegix is proud to announce that effective September 29th, 2009, Contegix has been certified as compliant with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s U.S.-European (EU) Safe Harbor Framework.  Contegix is committed to protecting our customers’ privacy, and to continually demonstrating that security, privacy, and data protection are important core values for our organization.  By adhering to the Safe Harbor Framework Contegix is not only able to provide services to European businesses which require compliance, but is able to provide peace of mind to non-EU organizations who are concerned about privacy and data protection.

To help guarantee adherence to Safe Harbor principals, Contegix utilizes the services of TRUSTe, an industry leader in privacy services.  TRUSTe’s EU Safe Harbor certification program is one of the most trusted and rigorous in the business, and they will monitor Contegix’s privacy practices continually to ensure full compliance.

Contegix’s will continue to show dedication to security, privacy, and data protection by maintaining annual reviews and renewals of our Safe Harbor Framework compliance and SAS 70 Type II audit, and Contegix will always make it a mission to protect the private information of our customers.

Cloud computing, as we currently know it, is broken.  Data isn’t always persistent,  instances are unstable, pricing is confusing, and professional management is nowhere to be found.  Although we will tip our hats to bringing cloud computing to the masses, the cloud model needs a reboot.  It often seems like each month another company releases a cloud computing offering, but nobody ever takes the next step in maturing the delivery mechanisms, stability, or business model.  It is for these reasons that Contegix is proud to introduce Zeus, a managed cloud computing platform aimed at providing consumers with the power and flexibility of virtual systems coupled with the management support that only fully-managed data centers can provide.

Zeus is a unique cloud service that will provide persistent storage, reliable uptime, and managed support.  Based on VMWare ESX, fronted by high-end network gear and physical level 4-7 load balancers, and backed by true SAN storage and advanced monitoring, customers of the Zeus platform will be able to build powerful architectures that scale reliably.  Furthermore, with a 100% network and 100% power uptime SLA, security and compliance audits available for viewing, and the option of including Contegix’s world-class management support, cloud computing is now ready for the enterprise.

Another feature of Zeus that we’re excited about is the use of templates.  Zeus will come with virtual machine templates for several different common configurations.  If you want an Apache box, spin one up.  If you want a MySQL box, spin one up.  And it all happens in about 5 minutes.  If our templates aren’t meeting your needs, or you need to replicate the same instance over and over, simply upload your own template.  Better yet, convert your physical boxes with P2V and upload your enterprise.

Stay tuned for more information on Zeus.  Private beta is targeted for availability at the end of June, with full production availability at the end of July.

Contegix is proud to announce our platinum sponsorship of Atlassian’s upcoming user conference, Atlassian Summit.

Summit is Atlassian’s first ever user conference, designed to provide information to developers, users, managers, and anyone else interested in the Atlassian suite of collaboration and development tools.  Some of the agenda points include:

• the future of collaboration and dev tools
• roadmaps, feature previews and demos
• how-tos on deployment, tuning and mods
• in-the-code labs on plugins and APIs
• presentations from your peers
• “meet the engineers” workshops

As the platinum sponsor for Summit, Contegix hopes to show the Atlassian user community our dedication to Atlassian’s products and customers, and how users can pair Atlassian’s software with Contegix’s hosting and management for a truly powerful collaboration and development environment.

Summit is being held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco from May 31st to June 2nd.

For more on Summit, visit Atlassian’s Summit homepage.